The Unwilling Adventurer
Author | : R. Austin Freeman |
Publisher | : Jovian Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781537818542 |
ISBN-13 | : 1537818546 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: THE wayfarer on life's highway who has reached that stage of this earthly pilgrimage which is graciously miscalled middle age -a period when the full-blooded green of summer begins to show certain sere and yellow adumbrations of approaching autumn; when the silvery frost of age has begun to gather on the temples and Time has written, in many a lined inscription, the epitaph of passions dead and gone, of sorrows buried and forgotten; if he should pause to look back and retrace in memory the stages of his journey, will surely let his eye roam fondly over the fairer scenes - the shady dells, the flower sprinkled meadows, the quiet streams by which he has rested in joy and peace - rather than the dismal wilderness through which he has struggled, despairing and dismayed...